Quote Originally Posted by malwayne View Post
So, the fact that he signed players such as Ings, Austin, Trippier, plus the current captain ,still left you underwhelmed ?
Nothing to do with the quality of the players he signed mal, like all managers he made some good signings and some were duds, he also signed serial waster Keith Treacy and players who were nowhere near good enough like Porter, Hines and O'Neill. But that's not my issue with him, when he arrived he said it would take a while for the players to adapt to the way he wanted them to play, when he left I was no wiser as to the way he wanted them to play, nothing much had changed, without checking the tables I think he left us more or less where he found us, we just seemed to be treading water.

I can remember one game at Birmingham, we'd lost six of the last eight and in the first half we were shocking, as he walked off at half-time the fans were singing, 'Eddie, Eddie sort it out, Eddie, sort it out', and I was thinking this isn't the way it was meant to be.

I think also his youth might have worked against him, we had a fairly experienced squad at the time, I'm sure some of the players were around the same age as him, maybe he struggled to get the dressing room on his side, maybe some of the senior players found it hard to take a manager of their own age too seriously.

I don't think he took us backwards or anything, but I couldn't see any progress either, and I was expecting, hoping, he'd have us in the play-offs at least, but it didn't seem to be happening. So yes, slightly disappointed and underwhelmed by his time here. I wish it had been otherwise.